react-datetime vs react-datepicker

react-datetime

A lightweight but complete datetime picker react component. (by arqex)

UI Components Date / Time picker

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react-datepicker

A simple and reusable datepicker component for React (by Hacker0x01)

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react-datetime		react-datepicker
	Project
2	Mentions	34
1,990	Stars	7,839
-	Growth	1.2%
0.0	Activity	9.8
13 days ago	Latest Commit	1 day ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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react-datetime

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-datetime. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-24.

Best NPM Package for React.js Part - 2
18 projects | dev.to | 24 Jun 2022
Top 10 Date Pickers in React
11 projects | dev.to | 10 Mar 2021

react-datetime

react-datepicker

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-datepicker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-25.

9 React Calendar Components for Your Next App
6 projects | dev.to | 25 Apr 2024
Datepicker component
1 project | /r/react | 11 May 2023
How to implement a date picker in React
1 project | dev.to | 3 May 2023

react-datepicker is a lightweight library with a lot of features.
What component libraries do you use?
7 projects | /r/reactjs | 8 Apr 2023
Disabling selected date in date-picker
1 project | /r/reactjs | 10 Feb 2023

I have added a date picker to my application. I want to make the selected date section read-only, but when I add readonly to the input, it blocks the entire date picker. I need to do this in css or its component. (without js)
Five Time Saving React Packages You MUST Try!
5 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2022

Live demo
Hacktoberfest Week 2: First Bug Fix
2 projects | dev.to | 15 Oct 2022

I searched for alternative date pickers to use in place of the default HTML one. I found out that there is a React Date Picker component that can be used in place of the field.
JetBrains Ring UI
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Oct 2022

Exactly. There are tons of different ways to solve that problem in react-date picker, this being one of them: https://reactdatepicker.com/#example-year-dropdown
Introduction
1 project | dev.to | 7 Sep 2022

The trending project I researched and selected is react-datepicker https://github.com/Hacker0x01/react-datepicker/ I chose this project because datetime selection is a hard problem (localization, internationalization, accessibility, time zones, etc.) that we encounter daily, so a good library could be / can be very helpful.
Recommend DatePicker?
1 project | /r/reactjs | 16 Aug 2022

https://reactdatepicker.com/ I’m a rookie intern and was tasked with theming this to the project / brand I’m working for. I personally recommend this.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-datetime and react-datepicker you can also consider the following projects:

react-bootstrap-datetimepicker

tailwind-react-datepicker - React-datepicker styled with Tailwind CSS. Not a package.

react-dates - An easily internationalizable, mobile-friendly datepicker library for the web

input-moment - React datetime picker powered by momentjs

react-day-picker - DayPicker is a customizable date picker component for React. Add date pickers, calendars, and date inputs to your web applications.

rc-calendar - React Calendar

react-calendar - A modular toolkit to build calendar-related things in React

react-flatpickr - flatpickr for React

chakra-ui - ⚡️ Simple, Modular & Accessible UI Components for your React Applications

react-infinite-calendar - ✨ Infinite scrolling date-picker built with React, with localization, range selection, themes, keyboard support, and more.

react-hook-form - 📋 React Hooks for form state management and validation (Web + React Native)